Base Station Equipment

Thomcast Communications Inc. "Affinity" Base Station Family is designed for service providers delivering IP data and voice services over the MMDS, WCS and MDS bands. This product line has been in development for over a year, in anticipation for the need for this critical element of WLL/MMDS architectures.
The Affinity Base Station includes

• Comwave SD-Series Discrete Channel Transmitters
• Automatic Back-up Control System
• Transmitter SST (Sidelobe Suppression Technology)
• Upstream Integrated Receivers
• ComView Status Monitor and Control System
• On-Site RF Headend Monitoring System

The Base Station components are packaged, factory tested, and integrated to interface with both RF antenna systems and modem IF systems. They consists of both High-Power Super-Cell and Broadband Multi-Cell configurations, to service varying geographical areas and subscriber capacity requirements.

It provides output power from 2 to 200 Watts RMS, and features a wide downstream channel configuration capability (MMDS, WCS & MDS bands). Affinity Super Cell Base Stations have a flexible IF Interface configuration compatible with IF (standard), VHF/UHF or microwave (RF) off-air feeds. Deployments are customised for service providers delivering IP data and voice services in geographical areas where capacity is required to permeate strategically located areas. These base stations consist of sectorized downstream configurations (3 to 6 sectors typical), and feature broadband amplification and convenient packaging (co-location at an existing PCS facility is achievable).

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